Release

Steady heartbeat,
Even steps, beating the soft dirt;
Fight or flight.
Branches breaking,
Listening to the rush of the wild;
Thunder breaking the clouds.

Roots protruding from the ground,
Rocks break the skin of her bare feet,
Vulnerability.
Dew on the ground.
A spider web catches on her arm as she sprints through.
Rain pools in her foot prints.

A path ends.
Water rushes like she runs,
Toward the pool.

Water caresses her feet.
Watching the emotion rinse from her toes.
Her heart beats quickly.
All of the pent up energy;
Washing out of her into the pool of water.

Stress built up oozes from her;
Like the bleeding cuts on her feet.
Tension released,
Like an angry prisoner;
Into the free world.